Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13

Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13
Author: Robert Wauchope
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1964
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780292701533

This book is part of an encyclopedia set concerning the environment, archaeology, ethnology, social anthropology, ethnohistory, linguistics and physical anthropology of the native peoples of Mexico and Central America. The Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources is comprised of volumes 12-15 of this set. Volume 13 presents a look at pre-Columbian Mesoamerican from a combined historical and anthropological viewpoint, using official ecclesiastical and government records from the time.

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. By Bernal Diaz del Castillo, One of its Conquerors

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. By Bernal Diaz del Castillo, One of its Conquerors
Author: Alfred Percival Maudslay
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-01-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317012968

Books I-IV (1517-19), translated into English and edited, with introduction and notes, by Alfred Percival Maudslay, M.A., Hon. Professor of Archaeology, National Museum, Mexico, concerning the discovery of Mexico and the expeditions of Francisco Hernández de Cordova and Hernan Cortés, the march inland, and the war in Tlaxcala. The edition includes a bibliography of Mexico, pp. 311-68. Continued in Second Series 24, 25, 30, and 40. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1908.

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
Author: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2010-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108017053

An eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico (1519-1522); in this volume foot soldier Díaz joins Cortés' army.

The Ten Lost Tribes

The Ten Lost Tribes
Author: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2013-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199324530

In The Ten Lost Tribes, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite shows for the first time the extent to which the search for the lost tribes of Israel became, over two millennia, an engine for global exploration and a key mechanism for understanding the world.